Sixth Speed Issue 15

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INSURANCE Finally some one speaks out against the tyranny that involved in the granting of insurance to those involved in the life.

Sad to see the discrimination that’s going on.

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FASTEST PULSAR in the WESTERN HEMISPHERE | JOHN POWELL drives for WRC | BIN STUNTIN’ Bike Show | Shadow Gauges | Trinbago’s AUTHORIZED DEALER for VOLKs | TTASA hosts FIA | CARIB GREAT RACE | One MASSIVE MOTORCADE

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reference Some projects take time and others take time and a half, but when the pegs finally fall into the right holes what you get is potency beyond human reasoning

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QWKWHP Co. Ltd. (Debe) Princestown Auto Supplies RONS Marketing (San Fernando) Torry Hosein (Gulf City Mall) Parts Solution (Princestown) Pink Noise Audio (Gasparillo) Maztune (Cocyea) Ryan Performance (La Romain)

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I know that many of you are not happy with us right now and there isn’t much more we can say other than SORRY NAH! No really; from us at the sixth, especially me we want to apologize for the lengthy delay in Issue 15. You guys may not see it but it takes ALOT to put together an issue and frankly speaking the creative staff that is there to ensure the magazine’s awesomeness and that it’s true to its roots was BURNT OUT mentally and emotionally. It was easier for us to take a step back and work on us than to put out an issue that wasn’t up to the standards that you have grown to love/ hate. We would NEVER compromise what and who we represent. It nah worth it!

In all you guys; advertisers and readers alike, are the best and thanks to those who kept the faith and encouraged us to get back up. Now you guys can stop with the threatening calls/ texts/ emails filled with love that smells of flowers.

We are back kids; mixing things up by doing different - different. Issue 15 has more content, the same level of spelling errors that you have grown to love us for and a few new things that you’re not going to expect. Like we said bit by bit we will keep the awesome coming and stay creative as we go along.

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Sixthspeed tips At the sixth giving giving advice to make you better at what you do is what we are all about.

Get you fill on some of the BEST speed tips at the fassness. All fresh, all local, all brutal we give it to you straight like a bent up fork in a ice tray

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Michael Daisy aka Daisy

Vishwanath Sonny aka Vish

When it’s comes to straight up, you really couldn’t get better than Daisy. Always looking out for team members and fellow racers with a positive attitude, Daisy words were always “Doh study that”,’ Tommorow for that!”

Cool like a cucumber, Vish was the kind of guy you couldn’t help but like. Forever going the extra distance for a racer since cars were his passion, Vish was always on hand to support or lend good words of advice.

Editor in Chief: Marissa Wong Soo | Editorial Assist: Alex Ramirez, Brent Alleyne, Dwight Titus, C.T Bear, Kerwyn Johnson | Writers: Linzi Jeremiah, Jevon Emmanuel, 5FWD | Underground Radar: Nigel | Design & Layout: Sev7nth Interactive Media + the Accounting & Financial: Monique Jones

The Editorials:

We always encourage contibutions to the magazine, BUT as much as we endorse individual expression, we can’t publish everything; so we reserve the right to use submitted material and editorials as we see fit. All credit will be given where applicable to respective content contributors. Also the views expressed are those of the writers and NOT the magazine.

The Disclaimer:

As much as we here at Sixth Speed try our best to gurantee that the information in these pages are correct as can be, we cannot and will not be held responsible if you decide to try anything and things go wrong.Any damages to persons and property is not our fault; that burden of responsibility rest upon you shoulders. Don’t say we didn’t tell you pappy.

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NEW BIKE SHOP

The opening of Trinidad & Tobago’s newest bike shop was marred breathless when 100+ bikers converged on the store located in Avocat down Fyzo ( that Fyzobad if you’re from north) and raised the roof.

Catering to everything a bike guy could need and then some, Nix n’ Nax; owned by Asif

Mohammed, covers everything from bike accessories to protective gear to parts, not to mention they do the custom ordering thing. People from the village came out in abundance to see men like Fireman aka Tyrone leave mark in the road like a barber in a primary school child head and burn rubber till the sparks flew. Kicking off at 5pm and steaming until about 9:30pm the lime had riders like Darren Date and John Bose breezing in the mix of in the road stunts by Kevin Talman with a KTM and Randy from south coast customs with his Honda 600. No doubt it was madness especially since many of the rider came fresh from a Icacas big ride to make the opening really sweet.

GREAT RACE

No doubt that it was billed as the biggest race in boating history with a total of 26 boats across 7 classes. This year was a record year for entries, with south having six in the mix - Sheriff Lobo, Haulin Azz, Savage, Intense III, Stampede and Paramount. They say that the race isn’t for the fastest but for those who endureth to the end - this was definitely the case in 2012 as some of the most HYPED about boats in HISTORY claimed the DNF prize. Men was burning the midnight oil for weeks in order to get prepped for this race and despite HARD EFFORTS by ALL the teams to get ready, mechanical failures hindered what would have been an AWESOME showing of thunderous monsters.

Need Info: Nix n’ Nax (Asif Mohammed) | (C) 780-8888

D&D DOING IT

Navin’s (D&D Auto in the Bamboo) 2J powered Nissan R32 is crippling times like an early morning cramp up in Miami.

Having just recently lay down an 8.0 at West Palm with Larry from Drag International behind the wheel. The 1100HP beast has been winning out classes dropping time from a side. Originally the 32 was built down in Trinbago by Navin with the help of a few celebs like Sparky who handled suspension, and Singh (Boost Factory) on the engine side of things.

PHOTOS: Kevin Khan

In front the cameras Group B Gulf Fire One (Guy Costa/Troy Hannon) took the podium 1st place overall; BUT, behind the scenes it would have been a tight race if the heavily gossiped about Paramount; also noted on paper as THE FASTEST BOAT in the

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At the sixth we celebrate creativity on a different level. Since the inception of DSLR photography many have been putting eye to the viewfinder and risking life, limb and lens to take out some awesome pics. Here we showcase a few of the COOLEST shots fresh from the Trinidad & Tobago Underground that have us saying Wheyyyyyy sah!

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since his entrance into the world of Wallers in 1996 with a B11 powered by drafts, extractors and a 1500 engine, short and quiet Richard Gardner had been silently purging men like an overextended nitrous kit for years. Initially running 17’s (yes kids, it may sound unbelievable but before the “everybody in 11’s and 10’s” thing there was a time when 17’s was considered fast). When the Sunny was sold for another B11, this time with a B6T, ¼ mile seconds dropped from 17’s to 16’s.

From 16’s it was straight down to 11’s with another Nissan acquisition in 1999. A Pulsar power 4WD Nissan FB13 that did it to the best of ‘em at official and the bound to love Sunday School. Modified by Hakim (issue 8 kids, issue 8) the B13 ran 11.5 on the ¼ and was crowned fastest 4 cylinder with Link EMS, forged pistons, T3/T4, copper and a 75 shot.

Eventually, just like all the others Richard sold the B13, but it wasn’t long before boost withdrawals kicked it and he was back in the mix looking. AWD was the plan and whilst the thought of either a Subaru or Evo did enter his mind there were two barriers holding him back; one was the fact that he really loved the Nissan brand and two; which is probably the real reason, was his pockets were Nissan thin not Evo/ Subaru deep. Reality is a beach, so Richard decided stay in line and on point; the result was him buying a legit Nissan Pulsar GTI-R shell – no engine, no drivetrain, no suspension – just paint, seats, a government issued license plate.

To most this isn’t really ideal but to Richard this was the perfect platform for a project as it allowed him to start from zero and come up the way he wanted. Life kicked off with a low mileage front clip (half if you want to be Trinbago) from Boodram & Sons aka “Fireman”. From there is took less than a week for Mike’s Garage to transfer everything and get the car up, moving and ready to handle its dual role as a daily during the grind days and crucifixion mobile on the days off. Being completely stock at first, 12’s was the order of the day for (2) years until Richard had Boyie from Hakim’s Garage (the escort in Issue 8 kids) install a Street Concepts supplied 4 fogger 50 shot kit, which was enough to not only get the Pulsar to do a 11.7 but pave the way for more a little goodness later on as in rods, pistons, valves, seals, port & polish, Haltech E6X, GT40 turbo and fresh cooler piping from Blue Coral Racing. During the build; bleakness covered the land as the Wallerfield complex was permanently closed to racing; thereby putting the Pulsar Project on a go slow until 2007 when official drags kinda resumed.

Fast forward to 2011 when Richard decided to dun away with the games and turn the Pulsar into an all out creature with no broughtupsy, capable of bunning chess like a mangosteen soaked in bird pepper and digging out the earth like a Manicou on joy juice. With the car moving to MAS Tuning, the RNN was overhauled from bump to sump starting with the head. The 4 throttle individual setup was totally gutted in order to reduce any oxygen restriction and a BBK 80mm throttle body was installed to allow for more air to enter the blend. Now kids; if this were circuit, time attack or rally, ITBs would’ve used the intake air more efficiently across the cylinders as each getting his own; thereby maximizing performance across the band. But, this car was going too built for drags – throttle response isn’t really at the top of

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as long as we can remember, whether it’s was at the track or pon the street, there has always been tenacious incarnations of a select few beasties that became part of the magical run come see - waaaaayyyyyz circle. What makes this circle unlike any other is that it’s one of those parries that you can’t buy, bribe, backstab or bully your way into – you gotta earn your pass. And getting that pass means you MUST have men scampering over barricade like a gas soaked scratch bomb getting ready to buss in a Crix tin full of carbide and babash. Man must be not afraid to stand upon a stranger back just to see a pull, much less witness the ozone depleting burnout. Kids, when pulling to the line you would swear that Wazeer Khan (Singh) aka Boost Factory is giving out gold judging from the processional that escorts his infallibly felonious S14. Powered now by the Caribbean Airlines pulling 2JZ, few cars are able to reach the point of being able to sell tickets to a mere bonnet opening like this car can.

Originally a bike man tunning; not TURNING like the Queen, down the 1320 with a GS1150 Suzuki back in the day, Wazeer dry wake with a something different feeling, so in 2002 he decided to jump from two to four wheels in a big way. Somehow he managed to get a hold of an original TRIAL Garage drift S14. Note the words that came before garage; T-R-I-A-L. As one of Japan’s top tuning houses the SR equipped 14 was kitted out top to bottom with parts galore to make sure it slid effortlessly; we talking, knife edge HKS crank, Crower rods, HKS pistons, HKS metal head gasket, IHI GT35 type turbo, Carbonetics triple disc

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that’s not much fun and a person who’s not very auto savvy. Being able to CONCENTRATE on driving is the key that unlocks quality performance which leads to not only safer driving if you are an everyday mover but competition ripping detriment if you’re under race. With it being so essential, it’s no surprise that most drivers have NO IDEA what it really is and how you do it.

Concentration: is something that happens naturally when you become fascinated by something in your awareness, so it stands to reason that if you are fascinated by the sheer thrill of driving and the dynamics that go with it you will concentrate like a spitfly on a cold pot of fresh fish pelau. Now, what kills concentration is boredom; which is what really happens to MOST people on the road - they get bored and once you get in that mode your mental naturally wanders in an effort to find something more stimulating.

This situation is amped as your driving skills develop properly. The more skilled you are, the more likely you are to get bored, especially if the car is a totem pole of crab cakes; and this means that you will need a higher level of mental challenge in order to maintain optimum concentration. It’s for this very reason many drivers give themselves challenges on the road such as attempting to maintain a constant speed the entire highway and not use the brakes (we have been there and yes it’s possible). Others maintain interest by scorching the centreline or engaging in risky behavior. To the average person it may seem like those drivers are reckless idiots, but in actuality they are attempting to stay in the concentration zone albeit they may have exhibited inappropriate behavior at the wrong time and place to keep themselves motivated.

Space: Primitive humans (i.e. regular drivers) have a nasty tendency to concern themselves with what’s directly in front of them for short periods of time. Effective driving MANDATES that you have an expanded awareness of space (where you are and where you’re going) and time (what’s going on at that moment and in the moments to follow). Simply put this means using awareness of the future to act smart in the present. It might sound weird but something that drivers of a high calibre do is visually construct possible future events and put things in place to deal with them – normal driver just care about what’s happening now and often they don’t appreciate potential hazards until it’s on the couch, watching the late news eating a bake with bulljol and drinking a cane juice.

THE BARRIERS to AWARENESS: things that really throw of your state of awareness stem from your personal state i.e. how you manage you (read issue 14 – Wait! You no have it, so sad). For example; the more tired you are, the less things you are conscious of as your mind and body begins to shut down - you really can’t be aware of the concrete barrier if your eyes are resting. Another barrier that is huge is EMOTION. The more emotional your state, the less aware you are of what’s happening in your surroundings and a classic example of this is shown when people drive angry - not only are they oblivious to how fast they may be going but they have no clue as to how many people they may have cut in on as they go along. Having things clear means detaching yourself from feelings and the negative responses that may come from them.

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Your mind is your most powerful asset when driving since it’s the thing that controls your body – in effective driving your attitude TOWARDS blazing the trail is a great determining factor in HOW you blaze the trail. Without mental models of images, assumptions and meanings about ourselves, other drivers and the world, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to drive much less properly.

Effective drivers always do inward reflection and seek to improve their mental; and observe HOW changes in these models; before and after shape their driving decisions and actions on the road. To real drivers what counts is what works and if changing your views makes you enhanced then you change them. When it comes to the mind and driving it’s not what happens in the moment but how your mind deciphers, responds and brings to that said occurrence. What your mind sees as a good driver is dependent on not only information but your views; beliefs and values and who you are as a person.

You choose your point of view; when this changes your view of the world changes and you begin to see things in a new light. This in turn changes your thinking and therein your actions. For instance; most people are of the views that if an emergency comes up don’t hit the object; which means that their actions stem from them concentrating on avoiding the object. However, effective drivers’ actions come from them concentrating on putting

the car where they want it to go or rather driving through the space. Same situation; different points of view, just that one is more efficient.

Beliefs are what you hold to be true and values are the special beliefs that are not only true, but very, very important to you.

In driving, beliefs are useful when they assist you in performing above board – most people are of the belief that when driving they have the right of way – does this thinking make them better drivers – nope; hence the reason why most suck at driving.

Effective drivers believe that driving is a risky thing and at any moment something can happen, so it’s always better to drive for not only yourself but the other person as well. Good beliefs and values assist you to perform competently and motivate you to continually develop your performance. You are what you know and if what you know ain’t jack then what you believe and hold true will prevent you from really shining on the road.

Identity: how you drive and your driving style is a direct reflection of you, who you are and what you think about yourself. Most people who say “I is a good driver”, usually have no concept of what it means to be a good driver to begin with and base that assumption on how they may feel or perceive. At the same time driving is a very personal experience and people DO change in a plethora of ways when they get behind the wheel and placed in various driving environments. We have seen people usually in control of their emotions; literally lock up and freeze under a sudden brakes. We have seen MANY calm individuals turn into alter beasts when they get a “bad drive”. As drivers many people don’t have a clue as to who they really are on the road - for example; many people will say that they cool in real life but find themselves grinding and being very aggressive in north – south traffic. It may seem that the traffic jam is causing the stress but in reality it’s the feeling of hopelessness and him/her not being in “control” of both the situation and who they are. In becoming an effective driver, just like with all other situations, you have to choose the path that’s most efficient and work best in order to have a favorable outcome; driving on the road is no place for an identity crisis because you could dead.

ATTITUDES: are a bunch of beliefs and values combined with identities. Drivers’ attitudes form their whole approach to driving, the experience they get out of it and

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Right, word is that you came from a family of racers. Something tells me that HAS to be the case after we saw you decimate your husband as well as took a podium in the time attack up at ARC. How you find yourself in this woman?

LOL Well my dad God rest his soul started to rally when I was about (5). And at that time rally was a combo of high speed and navigational. I entered my first rally with my dad at (8) as a navigator, we ended up first 1st and that’s where it began. After he went into circuit but stayed in rally and ended up navigating for another friend then ended up meeting my husband (Haresh) in racing and began navigating for him.

Wait so you leave one racing family to go into another; that’s either destiny or plain ole insanity. So from navigating, how on earth did you get into a driver seat to beat him to a frazzle so? Well, I was doing the navigation thing up till last year when my husband bought a second race car. He gave the first one to his brother as he wanted to do away with the driving and focus more on engine building and team management. Later we were talking and he mentioned that he was looking for a driver for the second race car. So I said “Well me!” He looked at me as if I wasn’t serious and first brushed it aside.

A week later he bring it back up that her looking for a driver and I told him again “ME!” And that is where it started.

Lay down the spousal law man diaz whey we talking about. Wait your husband didn’t coach you in any way on what to tell we right?

No, lol!.

Nice tell me what that navigator scene is like because I always consider them dead weight in the front - drivers is the boss!

What! No! Every time people hear driver they think :IT Analyst|DRIFT Enthuasist|Nissan S14 adrenaline rush but navigators get that to. In fact in a navigation event, which is different from a high speed event the driver don’t matter; the real boss in the navigator - the driver have to take instructions and go where the navigator tells them.

Say what you want yes; drivers are still the bawse; so give an example of navigation thing? T, cross road left, ½ kilo – it’s drawn out on paper and you just follow the arrows.

So that means what exactly because all I known in race language is ready, drop hand, pop clutch and mash gas. LOL! Look for a grass road on left ½ kilo up the road.

And here they say that the reason men get lost all the time is because of woman. Sad. So tell me, when your dad Ralph Ramdeo aka Unkle Ralphie used to circuit you ever take tush and ting on the

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won’t realize but the universe is set in such a way that anytime you want something bad enough you WILL get it. That’s why the old folks will always say be careful what you wish for alongside be careful and always ask for exactly what you want. In order to request, receive and register all that’s normally required is a potent vision; a modest amount of patience; a dotish level of unrefined mental tustiness and a pigtail bucket of gruesome hard work (there is always a physical part involved). Now, most people tend to doubt and give up hope in getting what they really want but as life is designed your mental is the thing that shapes your physical. Ever since picking up the disgustingly awesome habit of bike from his Dad, Mark Ramoutar has been living bike since conception; riding since 12; stunting since 14; fixing since 12 and drag racing his father’s modified 650 Honda Nighthawk since 17.

Not one to be into rum, liming or the vices that come along with that; his thing was ALWAYS bike and his reverie was to own one of the most venom infused rockets of all time; a 1300 Suzuki Hayabusa. Living in a dreamer’s dream; Mark; despite his deep adore for the bike since 1999, never thought he would own one of the world’s fastest production bike for one single reason. The bike is naturally expensive and his pocket wasn’t reaching so deep; or so he thought. One thing about the universe is that it delivers in the strangest of ways, so needless to say that when time came for Mark to buy a bike he had all but given up on the ‘Busa. So much so that he made up his mind to “settle” for a Suzuki 1000 GSXR as it was much cheaper.

The GSXR hunt went horrible as in - checking everybody in the game for almost a year and coming up empty horrible. Mark was on the bread van sucking level salt as nothing worth his time was coming up; apparently demand was high, supplies were stubbornly low and who had good ones personally wasn’t selling. What he was getting was Honda and Yamaha; so with cash in hand Mark went to get a low mileage 08 Honda CBR1000 he came across by Dezi at Custom Imports in Cunupia. Just as he was about to spend a money; something inside said to go higher up the road by The Workstation; that’s where he saw it; a 2006 Hayabusa LE with a 12” swingarm extension and a Brocks SS exhaust at a champion price. Love at first sight kicked in pronto and the need to have it soaked in even more after Lincoln showed him what the bike could do right there on the people road. With the price right and online research showing that parts was easy to get as a roll to the side back itch on a dry coconut husk mattress since the ‘Busa hasn’t really changed mechanically since it came out in ‘99. There is a saying that you can’t improve on perfect – bullspit, as Mark was about to prove.

No doubt that money changed hands faster than disappearing ginger beer around Christmas. Buying the bike was one thing but in the beginning Mark realized he had two issues; first one being Fiancé. With mama not really knowing about the bike purchase at first, Mark had to do the honourable thing and park his “partner’s” bike at his parents’ house and do what come natural to any loving guy that wants to keep the peace. Bribe. So one car and lots of love later Mark was all clear to do what he loved and has dreamt about for almost 13 years - Ride the ‘busa. With the Suzuki being the fastest thing he has ever ridden, letters can’t begin to describe how bum-mee Mark was in the beginning. Add to that the euphoria of actually riding the motor he has been fantasizing about since ever and you can see where we coming from. Time and practice eventually saw Mark doing things on corners that had men he used to ride with in dusty awe. Laying low and making it stick like flour glue on a dinky kite, Mark was working the stretch 1300 like nobody’s

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; gather ‘round the fig patch, for what we are about to whisper in your ear must be mulled and meditated upon in reverence.

The car you are looking at is dangerously fast. And it’s so in a very atypical kinda way. This is the kinda fast where tires will carry you to court for the unrelenting abuse in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th all the time. This is the kind of fast where bad mind mashing of the throttle at any given rpm will make front of the car want to tear away and go buss a lime by itself. Kids – this is the kind of fast where making people feel sick will be a normal occurrence, especially those who want to run in all bold-face and not understand, much less appreciate the vulgarity of what lies underneath it all.

Ever since cock had false, gold, plated teeth, the Mini Cooper always had the knack for gleefully tugging at the heart strings of owners when it first came out almost 50 years ago. From then to now; the average mini guy/ gal would have passed through a couple; but, when your couple passes 20 and is knocking on 30’s door, then you are certified toutoulebay. Not normal by any stretch of the imagination, Bonney Abdul is a qualified mini maniac by sheer by construction and is no stranger when it comes to buying, owning, modifying, racing, selling, regret the sell, buying another and so on. Matter of fact, as a Wallerfield circuit man by nature, Bonney is actually the last person the late, great Tom Miller built a mini for.

Just so you know because we say you need to, Tom Miller was one of the hardest; some will argue the greatest, mini racer/ mechanic to ever touch the bumper to fender grid.

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